להלן תמצית הקדמה לסטנדט ע"פ מסמך BIZBOK® Guide גרסה 11
The Business Architecture Body of Knowledge® (BIZBOK® Guide) provides an industry standard framework for business architecture practitioners and individuals who wish to use business architecture to address business challenges. This practical guide comes in the form of best practices, gleaned from numerous companies and business architecture leaders. Practitioners of business architecture understand the importance of having a comprehensive yet user-friendly handbook for the growing number of organizations embracing this important discipline.
The BIZBOK® Guide also provides a complete picture of business architecture, tying together various concepts, disciplines, principles, and best practices into an overall framework. In addition, it has the capacity to incorporate and leverage a wide range of business practices and emerging disciplines. As a result, it establishes the standard for building, deploying, and leveraging business architecture within an organization. The BIZBOK® Guide is practitioner-driven, representing a collective and growing body of contributions from business architecture practitioners across a variety of industries worldwide.
What is Business Architecture?
A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands”.1 This definition was vetted repeatedly by multiple standards committees and practitioners and stood the test of time, incorporating several important elements that established both the foundation and the justification for business architecture and related best practices.
Business architecture represents holistic, multidimensional business views of: capabilities, end-to-end value delivery, information, and organizational structure; and the relationships among these business views and strategies, products, policies, initiatives, and stakeholders”.
The value of business architecture is to provide an abstract representation of an enterprise and the business ecosystem in which it operates. By doing so, business architecture delivers value as an effective communication and analytical framework for translating strategy into actionable initiatives. The framework also enhances the enterprise’s capacity to enact transformational change, navigate complexity, reduce risk, make more informed decisions, align diverse stakeholders to a shared vision of the future, and leverage technology more effectively.
Sample scenario topics, a good many of which are covered in the BIZBOK® Guide, include:
• Investment Analysis
• Shift to Customer Centric Business Model
• Merger and Acquisition Analysis
• New Product / Service Rollout
• Globalization
• Business Capability Outsourcing
• Supply Chain Streamlining
• Divestiture
• Regulatory Compliance
• Change Management
• Operational Cost Reduction
• Joint Venture Deployment
• IT Portfolio Investment Analysis
• Digital Transformation
• Digital Twin Deployment
Core principles that apply to business architecture as a whole are listed below:
1. Business architecture is about the business.
2. Business architecture’s scope is the scope of the business.
3. Business architecture is not prescriptive.
4. Business architecture is iterative.
5. Business architecture is reusable.
6. Business architecture is not about the deliverables.
